Owens-Illinois, Inc. v. United Insurance

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• “Although the [CGL] drafters seemed to acknowledge that some continuum existed between exposure and manifestation of disease when coverage was provided, they did not (or could not) decide how to apportion the responsibility.”
• “[T]he term ‘trigger’ is merely a label for the event or events that under the terms of the insurance policy determines whether a policy must respond to a claim in a given set of circumstances.”
• “As the Appellate Division noted, O-I was a sophisticated insured and cannot seek refuge in the doc- trine of strict construction by pretending it is the corporate equivalent of the unschooled, average consumer.” (internal quotation marks omitted)
• applying Owens-Illinois to progressive environmental property damage

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).